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" I am falsely accused, without proof, of using my position for personal profit. Many who accuse me have lifestyles and spending habits that make them walking proofs of that crime. "

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" I did not become president to be popular. To work, to lead, to protect and preserve our country, our people, that is why I became president. "

Gloria Macapagal Arroyo

People

Work

Country

" Real government is about looking beyond the vested to the national interest, setting up the necessary conditions to enable the next, more enabled and more empowered generation to achieve a country as prosperous, a people as content, as ours deserve to be. "

Gloria Macapagal Arroyo

Government

People

Generation

" I can say that I have not done any culpable violation of the constitution. "

Gloria Macapagal Arroyo

Say

Any

Constitution

" There isn't a day I do not work at my job, or a waking moment when I do not think through a work-related problem. Even my critics cannot begrudge the long hours I put in. Our people deserve a government that works just as hard as they do. "

Gloria Macapagal Arroyo

Moment

People

Think

" In my presidency I've been guided by what's right, not what's popular. "

Gloria Macapagal Arroyo

Guided

Right

Popular

" We have the hardest working people in the world, the most adaptable and the most congenial to employ. "

Gloria Macapagal Arroyo

Hardest

Working

World

" In the time one is given, the steward must make the most of the talents one is given by the Lord. "

Gloria Macapagal Arroyo

Must

Time

Most

" Camiguin, Romblon and Camarines Norte got out of the list of poorest provinces in 2003. With tourism, these provinces can become rich. "

Gloria Macapagal Arroyo

Out

Rich

Tourism

" By and large, our political system has betrayed its promise to each new generation of Filipinos, not a few of whom are voting with their feet, going abroad and leaving that system behind. "

Gloria Macapagal Arroyo

Generation

Feet

Political

" The military is faithful to the constitution. They will come in only to protect the people from the enemies of the state. "

Gloria Macapagal Arroyo

Constitution

Faithful

People

" While there's been much progress on terrorism, there's still much work to do and it is very important that the countries work together in order to address this threat together. "

Gloria Macapagal Arroyo

Important

Together

Progress

" The Constitution says that troops can be in the Philippines if there's a treaty that provides for it, and we have two treaties with the United States. "

Gloria Macapagal Arroyo

Two

Philippines

United

" The roof cannot collapse when the value pillars of government and society are sound and strong. "

Gloria Macapagal Arroyo

Strong

Value

Government

" We look at the world and analyze the world, and see what we can do that is in line of our mutual interest and also in line with, you know, what the whole world needs, because this is a world where we really have to all work together. "

Gloria Macapagal Arroyo

Look

Together

Work

" I am very grateful to our Muslim population. One of the things we've been doing is stepping up our inter-faith dialogue with the Muslim population. And I think that helped very much in their support for me. "

Gloria Macapagal Arroyo

Grateful

Support

Think

" The Philippines has no policy that demands sacrifice of human lives. "

Gloria Macapagal Arroyo

Human

Sacrifice

Policy

" It is simply the truth that the political system that I am part of has degenerated to the point that it needs fundamental change. "

Gloria Macapagal Arroyo

Change

I Am

Political

" We're working with our neighbors Indonesia and Malaysia to fight terrorism in our own common seas. "

Gloria Macapagal Arroyo

Neighbors

Common

Terrorism

" We've supported the U.S. every step of the way. The Philippines was the first government in Asia after September 11, in fact, the night of September 11; it was nighttime for us then. It was daytime here. We were the first government in Asia to come out and say that we're supporting the U.S. "

Gloria Macapagal Arroyo

Here

Government

Way

" On the economy, the U.S. cumulatively is our most important investor, most important trading partner, most important sort of tourists, and we have now a tie that will... a link that will be here for many, many years to come, and that is the big Philippine-American community in the United States - three million of them. "

Gloria Macapagal Arroyo

Partner

Important

Community

" The military is very constitutionalist, and I have my faith in them and in the cooler heads of the people. "

Gloria Macapagal Arroyo

Military

Faith

Cooler

" We fight terrorism. It threatens our sovereign, democratic, compassionate and decent way of life. "

Gloria Macapagal Arroyo

Democratic

Fight

Life

" We must promote solid traits such as work ethics, a dignified lifestyle, matching actions to rhetoric, performance rather than grandstanding. "

Gloria Macapagal Arroyo

Ethics

Work

Rhetoric

" Individually, we've taken the world on and won; together, we must take on the challenge of creating a new, peaceful, humane and competitive nation and prevail. "

Gloria Macapagal Arroyo

World

Together

Peaceful

" I stand in the way of no one's ambition. I only ask that no one stand in the way of the people's well being and the nation's progress. "

Gloria Macapagal Arroyo

Stand

Way

Ambition

" We have our own home-grown terrorism, and to the extent that we can obliterate terrorism all over the world, then our own terrorism will be much easier to neutralize. "

Gloria Macapagal Arroyo

Much

Will

Own

" I was invited by President Bush to come to the United States on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the mutual defense treaty. "

Gloria Macapagal Arroyo

Come

President

Anniversary

" As I have shown, I will defend democracy with arms when it is threatened by violence; with firmness when it is weakened by division; with law and order when it is subverted by anarchy; and always, I will try to sustain it by wise policies of economic progress so that a democracy means not just an empty liberty, but a full life for all. "

Gloria Macapagal Arroyo

Life

Progress

Wise

" In 1995, we had evidence of the brother-in-law of Osama bin Laden being in the Philippines, living in the Philippines. We had evidence of front organizations set up in the Philippines. And we uncovered evidence about, which would help the U.S. with - about the perpetuators of the World Trade Center bombing. "

Gloria Macapagal Arroyo

Evidence

Help

Living

" Better talk than fight, if nothing of sovereign value is anyway lost. Dialogue has achieved more than confrontation in many parts of the world. "

Gloria Macapagal Arroyo

Lost

Value

Fight